Storytelling

Activity Ideas

• 6 word memoirs
• 5 Frame Stories
• 25 word stories

Examples

• Chicken Bus (photos by Gwyn Lawrence)
• http://www.edutopia.org/reading-film-story-movies
• Walk the World http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=12049&version=2387&pageID=5943
• http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/11/28/examples-of-digital-storytelling-types/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I07xDdFMdgw

Recommended Resources

• Center for Digital Storytelling
  • Digital Storytelling Cookbook
• Digitales
• Digital Story Telling - In Plain English
• StoryKeepers
• Tutorials:
  • Audacity
    • http://langwitches.org/blog/2008/07/24/digital-storytelling-part-viii-audacity/
    • http://howto.wikis.birmingham.k12.mi.us/Audacity
  • Photostory3
    • http://langwitches.org/blog/2008/05/09/digital-storytelling-part-iii-photostory/
  • Moviemaker -
    • http://howto.wikis.birmingham.k12.mi.us/MovieMaker
    • http://langwitches.org/blog/2008/05/16/digital-storytelling-part-iv-windows-movie-maker/
• Story Boards/Script Templates
  • Script
  • Script Sample
  • Storyboard Template
  • Treatment
• Ken Burns: On Story

Questions

• What makes a story good?
  • Can you have a good story without conflict?
• What takes away from a good story?
• What kinds of stories are there?
• How are stories told with images or video different from written or verbal stories?

Related Diigo Links

• Resonate
• Advanced Thinking in Digital Storytelling - Creative Educator
• Digital Storytelling Across The Curriculum
• Digitales | Books & Articles | Bernajean Porter
• The Art of Digital Storytelling
• Flocabulary - Five Things (Elements of a Short Story) - YouTube
• Quality story writing through the power of Pixar
• The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar
• Tell a Story in 5 Photos (December 2011) - YouTube
• Digital storytelling: A tutorial in 10 easy steps